A tectonic escape model for the formation of sedimentary basins in the Yangzhou block of the Lower Yangtze Region, Eastern China

2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y.J. Shang ◽  
Z.Q. Yue ◽  
B.D. Xia ◽  
H.M. Lin ◽  
G.H. Li
Keyword(s):  
Eastern China ◽  
Sedimentary Basins ◽  
Lower Yangtze Region ◽  
Tectonic Escape ◽  
Lower Yangtze

Presumed domestication? Evidence for wild rice cultivation and domestication in the fifth millennium BC of the Lower Yangtze region

Antiquity ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 81 (312) ◽  
pp. 316-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorian Q Fuller ◽  
Emma Harvey ◽  
Ling Qin
Keyword(s):  
Wild Rice ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Rice Cultivation ◽  
Lower Yangtze Region ◽  
Lower Yangtze ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Spread Of Agriculture ◽  
Rice Domestication

Prompted by a recent article by Jiang and Liu in Antiquity (80, 2006), Dorian Fuller and his co-authors return to the question of rice cultivation and consider some of the difficulties involved in identifying the transition from wild to domesticated rice. Using data from Eastern China, they propose that, at least for the Lower Yangtze region, the advent of rice domestication around 4000 BC was preceded by a phase of pre-domestication cultivation that began around 5000 BC. This rice, together with other subsistence foods like nuts, acorns and waterchestnuts, was gathered by sedentary hunter-gatherer-foragers. The implications for sedentism and the spread of agriculture as a long term process are discussed.

Deep seismic probing of continental crust in the lower Yangtze region, eastern China

1990 ◽  
Vol 173 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 297-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shijie Weng ◽  
Hushen Chen ◽  
Xueqing Zhou ◽  
Zhichen Cui
Keyword(s):  
Continental Crust ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Lower Yangtze Region ◽  
Lower Yangtze

Geophysical prospecting for petroleum in marine carbonate areas of the lower Yangtze region of southern China

Geophysics ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 1306-1312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dumming Deng ◽  
Qingxian Ou
Keyword(s):  
Southern China ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Structural Complexity ◽  
Alluvial Plain ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Marine Carbonate ◽  
Lower Yangtze Region ◽  
Lower Yangtze ◽  
Complex Structural ◽  
Continental Basin

The lower Yangtze region extends over the Jiangsu Province in eastern China. Most of the region is a huge alluvial plain formed by the delta of the mighty Yangtze River. Beneath the alluvial plain, thick marine carbonates of late Sinian to Middle Triassic age make up a substantial portion of the subsurface sediments of southern China. After deposition of the thick carbonates, this region was subjected to a stage of deformation and extensive erosion. During the Mesozoic and Cenozoic time intervals, clastic deposits formed a continental basin. In the past, most of the petroleum exploration in the region targeted the structures in the continental basins, and some minor oil fields were found. Marine carbonate formations in this region are expected to be more promising for petroleum exploration. Seismic surveys aimed at identifying carbonate structures in this region show that the subsurface structures caused by intense deformation are complex. Structural complexity and extensive erosion have made it difficult to obtain reliable seismic data to resolve the geology of the area. Some new techniques, including wide‐line profiling and 3-D seismic acquisition, along with integrated regional profiles, have overcome some of the difficulties in recent years and significant advances have been made.

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